stage setting
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3.6
- noun
- /steɪdʒ ˈsɛtɪŋ/
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- Each detail in the stage setting, from the furniture to the lighting, contributed to the overall atmosphere of the performance.
Examples
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In the meantime, whenever I turned my head, I saw more Indians present, bringing their supplies, their tipis, their dogs and horses, lighting big fires, and soon a whole encampment grew before my eyes, as quickly and artfully created as a stage setting.
Fiction book (1993) -
His travel sufferings prompted him to insist on fidelity in his stage settings.
Academic text (1998) -
Here, all the lights had been turned full on, and the area was as bright as a stage setting.
Fiction book (1990) -
And so we need a little bit of stage setting before we get to her encounter with the author and his wife.
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But that's important stage setting right there.
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He also was explicit about stage setting, scenery, and place.
Academic text (1998) -
Consider, by way of preliminary stage-setting, one of the major themes of Leibniz's philosophy.
Academic text (1998) -
Similarly, an 1842 Paris-to-Dresden carriage trip of five days inspired Wagner to create stage settings for Tannhäuser.
Academic text (1998) -
For The Firebird, the teacher could choose to talk with the children about the music, ballet movement, choreography, fairy-tale source, costumes, stage setting, conductor's role, orchestral score, or instruments.
Academic text (1999) -
The director meticulously arranged the stage setting to transport the audience to a 19th-century village.
Synonyms
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6.0
The scenery and objects used on a stage or film
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3.7
Painted parts of a stage that show a place
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3.0
The scenery and props arranged to show a place in a play or film
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3.0
Painted backgrounds and pieces on a stage that show where a play happens
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3.6
The background and objects on a stage that show where and when a play happens
The way things like the background, objects, and lights are arranged in a film or play to create a mood
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'stage' (theatre/film venue) combined with 'setting' (assembled scenery/props) yields the arrangement of scenery on a stage. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent nominal compound that a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand.
Etymology
Stage setting comes from the theatre. It is the stage and the setting — the painted backgrounds, furniture and props put on stage to show the 'location' where the action happens, so the phrase means how a place is arranged for a 'scene'.